""" Visualization of named colors. Simple plot example with the named colors and its visual representation. """ from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function, unicode_literals) import six import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from matplotlib import colors as mcolors colors = dict(mcolors.BASE_COLORS, **mcolors.CSS4_COLORS) # Sort by hue, saturation, value and name. by_hsv = sorted((tuple(mcolors.rgb_to_hsv(mcolors.to_rgba(color)[:3])), name) for name, color in colors.items()) # Get the sorted color names. sorted_names = [name for hsv, name in by_hsv] n = len(sorted_names) ncols = 4 nrows = int(np.ceil(1. * n / ncols)) fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(8, 5)) X, Y = fig.get_dpi() * fig.get_size_inches() # row height h = Y / (nrows + 1) # col width w = X / ncols for i, name in enumerate(sorted_names): col = i % ncols row = int(i / ncols) y = Y - (row * h) - h xi_line = w * (col + 0.05) xf_line = w * (col + 0.25) xi_text = w * (col + 0.3) ax.text(xi_text, y, name, fontsize=(h * 0.8), horizontalalignment='left', verticalalignment='center') ax.hlines( y + h * 0.1, xi_line, xf_line, color=colors[name], linewidth=(h * 0.6)) ax.set_xlim(0, X) ax.set_ylim(0, Y) ax.set_axis_off() fig.subplots_adjust(left=0, right=1, top=1, bottom=0, hspace=0, wspace=0) plt.show()